Sonoma State University
September 30, 2002

Atmospheric Wonders: Light and Color, Fire and Ice in the Sky

Joe Jordan
NASA Ames Research Center

Darwin 103
4:00 PM

Joe Jordan of NASA Ames Research Center and the SETI Institute will discuss the science behind such sky phenomena as rainbows, haloes, sundogs, glories, mirages, the “green flash,” noctilucent and mother-of-pearl clouds, and the twilight shadow of the earth’s horizon on the air.